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MANIFESTATIONS OF TRUTH
Translation And Detailed Explanation of
MISHKAAT
AL-MASAABIH
مَطارقٍ مَع مِشْكِوَة المصاب
ARABIC ENGLISH
Shaykh Waliuddin Abu Abdullah Al-Khateeb Al-Tabrezi
Translation and Commentary
Shaykh Nawab Qutbuddin Khan Dehlavi
DARUL-ISHAAT
Karachi-Pakistan.

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MANIFESTATIONS OF TRUTH
Translation And Detail Explanation of
MISHKAAT
AL-MASAABIH
مَظَامُالَعَدِهِ شَحْ مُشْكِوَة المضادة
Sheikh Waliuddin Abu Abdullah Al-Khateeb Al-Tabrezi
Vol. 4
Hadith No. 4064 to 5436
Urdu Translation & Commentary
Sheikh Nawab Qutbuddin Khan Dehlavi
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.
BOOK -- XIX
2.
Game & animals that may be
25
slaughtered
3.
Ruling
25
25
5.
Trained dogs & arrows
25
6.
Flesh that stinks
28
7.
When uncertain about slaughter
28
8.
.
Mentioning name other than Allah's
29
9.
Enough to slaughter with what causes
30
bleeding
10.
Slaughtering with stone
31
11.
Do not slaughter wildly
31
12.
Animals may not be fettered & used as
31
target
13.
Do not brand the face
32
14.
Animals may be branded when necessary
33
15.
Section II
34
16.
May slaughter with that which sheds
blood
34
17.
Slaughtering when compelled
34.
18.
When game dies
34
19.
When an arrow is shot
35
20.
Vessels of non-Muslims
35
21.
Eating with non-Muslims
35
22.
Mujaththamah is forbidden
36
.
23.
The animals that are forbidden to eat
36
24.
Disallowed to consume Sharitah
37
25.
The embryo & its mother
37
26.
Nehr & slaughter
38
27.
Disallowed to kill animal or bird
39
unnecessarily
28.
Anything cut off fro a living animal is
.39
dead
29.
Section III
40
30.
Essence of slaughter is to drain out blood
40
31.
Of sea animals only fish is lawful
40
32.
Some rulings about the sacrifice
41
33.
CHAPTER - II
42
34.
About dogs
42
35.
Section I
42
36.
Do not keep dog unnecessarily
42
37.
Killing dogs
43
Section II
43
38.
39.
Reason why all dogs may not be killed
43
40.
Staging animal fights disallowed
44
41.
Chapter - iii
44
42.
Animals that are lawful to eat & animals 44
that are unlawful
43.
Dhu naab beast is forbidden
45
44.
Dhu mukhlab bird is forbidden
45
45.
Domestic ass is forbidden
46
46.
Horse's meat is permitted
46
47.
Wild ass is permitted
46
48.
Rabbit is lawful food
46
49.
Flesh of lizard
47
50.
Hen may be eaten
48
51.
Locusts may be eaten
48
52.
Eating a dead whale
48
53.
When a fly lands in someone's food or
49
drink
54.
Mouse falling in ghee
49
55.
Killing the snakes killing snakes
49
56.
Kill the geckos
52
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Killing ants
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92.
The day of aqiqah
67
58.
Section II
53
93.
BOOK - - XX
69
59.
rat landing in ghee
53
60.
Bustard is lawful
54
61.
Flesh of jalalah is forbidden
62.
Lizards are disallowed
54
97.
Significance of saying bismillah
69
98.
Using the right hand to eat & drink
70
64.
What was forbidden on the day of khaybar
55
99.
Do not use left hand for food & drink
70
71
101.
If any food you drop, clean & eat it
72
102.
Do not recline while eating
72
103.
Eating at tables
73
surfaces
69.
About locusts
56
70.
Cock may not be reviled
57
71.
On finding snake in the house
57
72.
Warning against sparing snake for fear
57
of reprisal
73.
Do not kill the white small snakes
59
74.
When a fly drop in food & drink
59
75.
Four creatures must not be killed
60
76.
Section III
60
77.
Personal whims do not dictate what is
60
lawful & unlawful
78.
Flesh of ass forbidden
61
79.
Kinds of jinns
61
80.
CHAPTER - IV
62
81.
The 'aqiqah'
82.
Shari'ah position
62
83.
Command to observe aqiqah
62
84.
Tahneek is masnun
62
85.
Section II
63
86.
Number of animals for aqiqah
63
87.
Importance of aqiqah
64
88.
.
One sheep/ goat on behalf of male child
65
89.
Aqiqah to prevent Uquq
66
90.
masnun to call the adhan in child's ear
67
91.
Section III
67
121.
Garlic may be eaten
82
122.
Do not go to mosque & gatherings after
83
eating garlic
123.
Weighing & measuring provision
84
124.
Praise Allah after eating
85
125.
Section II
86
126.
Bismillah brings blessings
86
127.
May recite bismillah during meals
86
73
105.
Nothing prepared with fine flour
73
106.
Prophet never found fault with any food
74
107.
Un believer eats voraciously
74
·108.
Share food with others even if little
76
109.
Talbinah is excellent for the sick
76
110.
Using knife and fork
77
111.
The Prophet liked sweetmeat
77
112
Vinegar is good condiment
78
113.
Excellence of truffles
78
114.
Eating dates & cucumber
79
115.
Ripe fruit of the arak tree
79
116.
Prophet's manner of sitting
80
117.
Do not eat two dates together
80
118.
Excellence of dates
80
62
119.
Ajwah dates have nutritional value
81
120.
Hard times through which the Prophet
81
went
69
54
96.
Three things to remember when eating
69
63.
Cat is forbidden
65.
Horse flesh disallowed
55
100.
Using three fingers to eat
66.
Property of those under covenant
55
67.
Fish, locust, liver & spleen
55
68.
Fish that dies in water dies in water &
56
104.
Never ate fine bread
54
94.
"Foods"
69
95.
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Gratitude after eating
87
163. Hospitality
102
129.
Blessing lies in ablution before & after
88
164. Command to be hospitable
102
meals
165.
Section I
102
130.
Eat from the sides
89
166.
Being hospitable is sign of perfect faith
102
131.
Reclining while eating against sunnah
90
167.
Guest must not stay more than three days
103
132.
Having meals in the mosque
90
168.
Hospitality is not wajib
104
133.
Prophet liked the meat of forearms
91
169.
May take along more guest s to a
friendly host
105
134.
Not preferred to use knife
91
135.
The sick must abstain
91
170.
Section II
107
136.
Prophet's likes
92
171.
The significance of hospitality
107
137.
Wiping clean the dish
92
172.
Evil is not repaid with evil
107
138.
Washing hands after eating
92
173.
Enter not without permission
107
139.
The Prophet liked tharid
93
174.
Better to have guests who are righteous
108
140.
Excellence of olive
93
175.
Sitting on the knees
109
141. Merit of vinegar
93
176. Eating together
109
142.
Dates as condiment
93
177. Section III
110
178.
Basic need & right of man
110
179.
Stop eating not before others stop
111
180.
Combining falsehood with hunger
112
112
145.
Worms is eatables
94
146.
Ventricle or gut is pure
95
147.
Things about which Shari'ah is silent are 95
permissible
148.
Prophet's desire for wholesome food
96
149.
Uncooked garlic is forbidden
96
150.
About onions
97
151.
Butter was dear to the Prophet
97
97
187.
Section II
113
188.
When compelled
113
189.
CHAPTER - IV
116
190.
Drink
116
191.
Section I
116
192.
Drinking with three pauses for breath
116
193.
Not from mouth of water skin
116
194.
Do not drink standing
117
195.
Prophet drank zam zam standing
117
196.
Mustahab to drink residue water of
117
ablution & zamzam standing
162.
CHAPTER - II
102
100
158.
Salt is the best seasoning
101
159.
Remove sandals before eating
101
160.
Let food cool down before eating
101
161. Lick the vessel
101
98
154.
Ajwah belongs to paradise
99
155.
Section III
99
156.
Failing to recite Bismillah before having meals
100
182.
Receiving & Seeing off guest
112
183.
Excellence of feeding food.
113
184.
CHAPTER - III
113
185.
More on the previous chapter
113
186.
Concerning the eating of one who is
compelled
113
143.
May consult a non-muslim physician
94
144.
Let one kind of food offset effects of the 94
other
181.
Blessings descend when people eat
together
152.
A platter with many varieties of food
153.
What may the sick have
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Mukruh to put mouth on the vessel
118
..
119
231. "Clothing"
133
199.
Distribute from the right side
120
200.
Section II
201.
Eating & drinking while moving about
& standing allowed in essence
202. Do not breath in the drinking cup
122
203.
Do not drink in one gulp
122
204.
Removing particles from drink
123
205.
Not from a Chipped portion
123
206.
May drink from mouth of skin
123
sometimes
207.
Prophet liked cold sweet water
124
208.
Milk is best food
124
209.
Sweet water for the Prophet
125
210.
Section III
125
211.
CHAPTER - V
125
212.
Naqi' & nabidh of different kinds
125
213.
Section I
126
214.
The bowl of Anas
126
215.
Nabidh for the Prophet
126
216.
Vessels that may not be used for nabidh 127
217.
Previous command withdrawn
127
218.
Section II
128
219.
Every intoxicant by whichever name is
128
forbidden
220. Section III *
128
221. CHAPTER - VI
129.
222.
Covering vessels and other things
129
223.
Section I
129
224.
Things to do when it is might fall
129
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Excellence of white garments
144
225.
Carry a vessel with cover on it if food is 130
inside
. 226.
Extinguish fire before sleeping
131
227. Section II
131
228.
On hearing dogs bark & donkeys bray
131
229. Extinguish lamps at night lest a mouse
132
make mischief
122
234. Narrow sleeved cloak
133
235.
Clothes in which the Prophet died
134
236. Prophet's bedding
134
134
237.
Prophet's pillow.
238.
Prophet's visit to Abu Bakr's house .
135
239.
Keep only three beddings
135
240.
Dragging lower garment
136
241. Disallowed to use excess cloth
137
242. Disallowed manners of dressing
137
243.
Man wearing silk
138
244. Men disallowed gold & silver vessels &
139
silk garments
245.
Tiyalsiyah mantle of brocade of the
140
Prophet
246.
Silk may be worn if there is a reason for 141
it
247. Do not wear clothes dyed with saffron
141
248. Section II
142
249.
Shirt as preferred clothing
142
250.
Begin to wear from the right side
142
251. Lower garment should better be upto
143
half shin, no more
252.
Disallowed to trial any garment
143
253.
Cops of the sahabah
143
254.
Woman may used more cloth
144
255. The seal of prophethood
144
257. Loose end of turban
145
258. Turban on cap
146
259.
Gold & silk forbidden to men
146
260.
Prayer on wearing new garments
146
261. Live like a rider
148
262. He who wears to impress will be
149
disgraced
230.
BOOK - - XXI
133
198. Forbidden to use gold &silver utensils
232.
Section I
133
122
233.
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Taking up resemblance to others
149
.
264.
Giving up elegance in this world
149
265.
Proclaim the blessings of Allah
150
266.
Keeping oneself clean & tidy
150
267.
Let Allah's favours be known
151
268.
Men disallowed to don red coloured
151
clothes
269.
About perfume
152
270.
Ten things disallowed
152
271.
Men are forbidden gold ring & silk to
153
wear
272.
Khazz & panther skin must not be used 154
to ride on
273.
Red saddle cloth forbidden
154
274.
Prophet grey hair
154
308.
Copper & iron rings disallowed to men
169
275. About the qitr cloak
155
309.
Ten things disliked by the Prophet
170
276.
A rude Jew
156
310.
Bells should not be worn
171
277.
Redish clothes disallowed to men
157
278.
Red striped cloak
157
279.
A black cloak.
157
280.
Qarfasa posture
157
281.
Garment below thin dress
158
282.
One fold of veil over one's head
158
283. Section III
158
284. Lower garment best half way up the legs 158
285.
Prohibition is to trail garment arrogantly 159
286.
May hang lower garment from front but 159
not from back
287.
. Turbns must be worn
159
288.
Body seen through clothes is naked
160
289.
On donning new garments
160
290.
Women disallowed fine clothing
161
291. Sayyidah Ayshah's asceticism
161
292.
Silk gown
162
293.
Silk borders on the warp
162
294.
Allah's favour must be made known
163
1
295.
Avail of what is permitted but avoid
163
squandering & arrogance
296.
White best for clothing
163,
297.
CHAPTER - II
164
298.
Signet rings
-
164
299.
Section I
164
1
300.
Men disallowed to wear gold ring but
164
not ring of silver
165
-.
301.
Gold ring on man spells coal of hell for
him
302.
Seal of prophethood
166
303.
Stone in the ring of the Prophet
167
304.
Not on the middle or next to it
167
305.
Section II
168
306.
Prophet wore the ring on both hands
168
307.
Silk & gold are forbidden to men
168
311. . Gold may be used in extreme need
172
312. Wearing to woman wearing gold
172
jewellery
313.
Section III
173
314.
If you want them in paradise then shun
173
gold & silk in this world
315.
Prophet's ring of gold
174
316.
Even children are disallowed to wear
174
gold
. -
317.
CHAPTER - III
174
318.
Footwear
174
319.
Section I
175
.
320.
The Prophet's sandals
175
321.
Necessity of shoes
175
175
322.
Wear the right shoe first & take off the
left first
323.
Shoe only on one foot is wrong
176
1
324.
Section II
176
325.
Thongs of the sandals of the Prophet
176
326.
Do not put shoe while standing
177
327. Did Prophet walk with one SHOE?
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328.
329.
Gift of the Negus of Leather socks
Remove shoes before sitting down
177
177
365.
Lengthy hair of men disliked
194
366.
If hair cannot be cleaned then shave head 195
367.
Circumcision of girls
195
368.
Women may not preferably dye with
196
333.
Body of menstruating woman is not
178
impure
369.
Mustahab to apply henna on hands of
woman
196
334.
That which is fitrah
178
335.
Distinguish yourself from polytheists
179
336
When to remove unwanted hair
179
337.
Dyeing hair
180
338.
Hair on head may or may not be parted
181
339.
Qaza is not allowed
182
340.
Effeminate cursed
182
341.
Wigs
183
342.
One who alters Allah's creation
184
375.
Baths
199
343.
Effect of an evil eye
185
376.
Section III
201
377.
Prophet never used a dye
201
378.
He applied dye to beard
202
379.
An effeminate exiled
203
380.
Colour perfume not for men
203
381.
About taking care of hair
204
382.
Disallowed to follow style of non
204
Muslims in hair do
350.
Warning to one who grows moustache
187
351.
Keeping the beard well set
187
352.
Khaluq disallowed to men
188
353.
Sukkah of the Prophet
189
354.
Prophet used hair oil often
189
355.
Prophet's plaits of hair
189
387.
CHAPTER - V
207
388.
Tasawir
207
389.
Section I
207
390.
Drawing or keeping pictures
207
391.
Unnecessary dogs should be killed
207
360.
Warning to user of black dye
191
361.
Yellow dye is allowed
192
362.
Must apply dye
192
363.
Grey hair are radiance of Muslims
193
383.
Forbidden to women to shave head
205
384.
Hair should not be unkempt
205
385.
Keep your courtyards neat & tidy
205
386.
Prophet Ibrahim was he first man to clip 206
mustache
356.
Parting of Prophet's hair
189
357.
Do not comb every day
190
358.
Shun Luxury
190
359
Keep hair tidy
191
392.
Prophet destroyed anything with
pictures on it
208
393.
Those who make pictures face
208
punishment
198
373.
Apply collyrium
198
374.
Best kind of medicines
199
344.
Matting hair
185
345.
Disallowed to dye with saffron
18
346.
Coloured Perfume
186
347.
Incense of fragrance
186
348.
Section II
186
349.
Clipping moustache is ancient sunnah
(Holy Prophet's practice)
186
364.
The Prophet's hair on head
194
330.
CHAPTER - IV
178
331.
Combing the hair
178
332.
Section I
178
henna
370.
Tattooing allowed as a remedy
197
371.
Curse on women & men who wear
197
garments of opposite sex
372.
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Do not hang decorative curtains
209
395.
Warning to maker of pictures
209
396.
Playing backgammon is bad
211
397.
Section II
212
398.
Pictures on one's bedding not disliked
212
399.
Protruding neck from hell will see, hear
212
& speak
400.
Three things are forbidden
213
401.
Playing backgammon is disobedience
213
402.
Flying pigeons
213
403.
Section III
214
404.
Drawing pictures as a profession
214
439.
Prophet had himself cupped on 17th,
232
405.
About a church
214
406.
Those who will be punished most
215
severly
407.
Evil of the game of chess
215
408.
Dog is impure but cat is not
216
409.
BOOK - - XII
217
410.
Kitabut-Tibb wa ar ruqa
217
411.
Medicine & spells
217
412.
Section I
217
413.
Allah has created cure for every illness
217
218
414.
Allah is He who cures
415.
Remedy in three things
218
416.
More about cauterisation
219
450.
Stomach & veins
240
417.
Kalunji is cure
418
Remedial power of honey
419.
Prophetic system of medicine & the
221
customary science of medicine
420.
Uses of al-qust aL-bahri
221
421.
Pleurisy
222
422.
Fever cooled with water
223
423.
Permission to use spell to care
223
424.
The verses of healing
225
425.
Evil eye is a fact
226
426.
Who it Works
427.
Section II
227
428.
Allah has created remedy for all ills
227
429.
Do not compel the patient to eat or drink 228
430.
Curing redness
228
431.
Cure of pleurisy
228
432.
Senna as a purgative
229
433.
Do not use forbidden things as medicine
229
434.
Impure medicine disallowed
230
435.
Headache & aching legs
230
436.
Henna on wound
230
437.
Benefits of cupping
230
438.
Frogs may not be used as ingredients for 231
medicine
19th 21st
440.
Dates on which he had himself cupped
232
441
Charms disallowed
233
442.
Nushrah is the devil's work
234
443.
The doings of the headless
234
235
444.
Spells & cauterizing are against trust in
Allah
445.
Rapid remedy for evil eye
237
446.
Spell for pustules
237
447
An example of an evil eye
238
448.
Seeking refuge
239
449.
Section III
240
451.
Cure for scorpion bite
241
220
452.
Prophet's hair
241
453.
Truffles
242
454.
Merit of honey
243
243
455.
Unnecessary cupping cause loss of
memory
456.
Day to remember
244
457.
Rulings about sorcery
245
458.
Kharq aadat
246
459.
Sorcery - definition & reality
247
460
What substitutes sorcery
249
461.
Wise to keep away from ungainful
250
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Visions
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251
499.
Section I
267
252
500.
A good dream of a Muslim is true
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464.
Section I
465.
Take no omens
252
501.
Good dreams
268
False beliefs
252
502.
Seeing the Prophet in a dream
268
466.
467.
There is no infection
253
503.
Dreams good & bad
270
468.
Misleading phantom
253
504.
Some dreams interpreted
270
469.
leprosy affliction
254
505.
Never disclose nightmare to another
272
470.
Section II
254
506.
A dream of the Prophet
272
471.
Prophet took good omen ,
254
507.
Prophet's dream about hijrah
273
Taking ill omen is devil's work
255
508.
Another dream
274
472.
473.
Taking ill omen is polytheism
255
509.
Through the intermediary world
275
474. Food with a leper
256
510.
Section II
277
475. Ill omen in three things
256
511.
Do not disclose your bad dream but to
the wise
277
476.
Good augury from pleasant names
257
477. Unpropitious house
257
478.
Section III
259
479.
480.
CHAPTER - III
260
481.
Soothsaying
260
514.
Section III
279
482.
Section I
260
515.
More about the Prophet's dream of the
279
483.
Soothsaying is forbidden
260
barzakh
516.
Do not fabricate a dream
281
517.
The hour at which the dream is truer
281
518.
BOOK -- XIV
282
519.
Adab
282
487. Section II
263
520.
Manners
282
488.
Learning astrology is like learning
263
521.
CHAPTER - I
282
522.
Salaam
282
489.
The rejected three
263
523
Section I
283
524.
Angels offered Salaam to Sayyiduna
283
Aadam
525.
Response to salaam
283
526 ..
The best deed
284
494.
Astrology is sorcery
266
527.
Rights of fellow Muslims
284
495.
Disbelief to attribute rain to moon
266
528.
Salaam is the best means of friendship
285
496.
BOOK -- XXIII
267
529.
Who should greet whom
285
497.
Ar-ruya
267
530.
Prophet's humbleness & love
285
512.
Prophet's dream about water waraqah
278
ibn Nawfal
Do not let ill omen obstruct you
259
513.
Prostrated himself on the forehead of the 279
Prophet
484
Soothsaying is falsehood
261
485.
Warning to those who visit soothsayers
262
262
486.
Regarding stars as rain-givers is
disbelief
sorcery
490.
Section III
263
491.
Working of soothsayers
263
492.
Shooting stars
264
265
493.
Why are stars created
10
1
462.
CHAPTER - II
463.
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Mischief of the Jews
286
564.
Seek permission of the host too
302
565.
Seek permission to enter a house
304
533. How to offer salaam to a mixed
287
566.
Coming with messenger suffices for
permission
.
304
gathering
534.
The rights of the road
288
535.
Section II
289
536.
Six rights of people on each other
289
537.
Words that increase reward of salaam
289
538.
Merit of taking precedence in greeting
290
539.
Disallowed to offer salaam to stranger
291
women
540.
Salaam of one member of a group suffices.
291
541.
Offer salaam at every meeting
292
542.
Offer salaam also to your family
292
575.
Mu'anaqah
306
576.
Commands of these two practices
306
544.
The greeting of the jahiliyah
293
545.
Greeting is absentia
293
578.
Taqbeel
546.
Conveying salaam through letters
294
579.
Section I
308
547,
Spreading dust on letter
294
580.
Shaking hands is permissible
308
548.
Placing pen on ear while writing
295
549.
Foreign language may be learnt
295
582.
550.
Offer salaam while meeting & when
296
taking leave
551.
Sitting on the roads
296
552.
Section III
297
553.
Salaam was introdued through Prophet
297
Aadam
554.
greeting women
298
555. Merit of Salaam
299
556.
Stingy refrains from greeting
299
557.
Merit of taking initiative in offering
300
salaam
558.
CHAPTER - II
300
559.
Seeking permission to enter a house
300
560.
Section I
300
561.
Seek permission thrice
300
562.
Exclusive permission
301
563.
Give your name
302
583.
Merit & blessing of hand-shake
30
584.
Disallowed to bow
309
585.
Shaking hands perfects salaam
310
586.
Embrace is permitted
310
587.
Welcome to Islam
311
588.
Kissed the Prophet on the plea of
311
seeking retaliation
589.
Embrace for Ja'far ibn Abu Talib
312
590.
Feet may not be kissed
313
591.
Kissing children
313
592.
For the sake of the children
314
593.
Section III
314
594. Man & his children
314
595.
Handshake & gifts
314
596.
CHAPTER - IV
315
597.
Standing of for someone .
315
598.
Section I
315
1
permission
568.
Section III
305
569.
Seek permission from mother too
305
570. . Another way to seek permission
305
571. Do not allow who does not offer salaam
306
572.
CHAPTER - III
306
· 573.
Shaking hands & embracing
306
574.
Musafahah
306
543.
Salaam before conversing
293
577.
Mu'anaqah
307
307
581. . Caressing children
308
Section II
308
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532.
Prophet kindness
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Standing up to respect the meritorious
315
600.
Disapproved to occupy someone's place 316
601.
Leaving one's place for a while
317
602.
Section II
317
603.
Prophet did not like anyone to stand up 317
for him
604.
Being pleased when men stand up like 318
statues
605.
Disallowed to stand up
318
606.
Do not occupy another's place
318
607.
Leave something on your place if you
319
have to go for a short while
608.
Prohibition to squeeze oneself between
two
319
609.
Section III
320
610.
The sahabah dispersed as the Prophet
320
stood up
611. Make room for the new comer
320
612. CHAPTER - V
321
613.
Sitting, sleeping, walking
321
614.
Section I
321
615.
Sitting with knees up
321
616.
Lying down with foot on foot
321
617.
Swaggering
322
618.
Best way to walk
322
619.
Section II
323
653.
Section III
334
620.
Mustahab to recline on pillow
323
621.
Ihtiba sitting
323
622.
A humble sitting
323
655. CHAPTER - VII
335
656.
Laughing
335
624. '
Lying down on right side
324
657.
Section I
335
658.
Prophet only smiled
335
659.
Smiled at accounts of the jahiliyah
335
660.
Section II
336
661.
The Prophet smiled often
336
628.
Do not sit within a circle of men
326
629.
Assemble at spacious place
326
630.
Sit together, not separately
326
631.
Do not lie part in shade part in sun
327
632.
Women should keep to the sides
327
633. Walk apart from women
328
634.
Sit where a place is vacant
328
635.
Section III
328
636.
Disallowed form of sitting
328
637.
Lying down on one's stomach
329
638.
CHAPTER - VI
329
639.
Sneezing & yawning
329
640.
Section I
329
641.
Yawning is from the devil
329
642.
It is fard or Wajib to say May Allah have 330
mercy on you
643.
Response to first response
331
644.
No response if sneezer fails to Praise
331
Allah
645
About of sneezes
332
646.
Keep hand over mouth when yawning
332
647.
Section II
332
648.
Keep hand on face when sneezing
332
649.
Prayer for one who say May Allah have 333
mercy on you! .
650.
The Jews faked sneeze
333
651.
Salaam on sneezing
333
652.
Repeated sneezing
334
654.
Do not add to praise of Allah any words 334
on sneezing
623.
Prophet's sitting after fajr
323
625.
Prophet slept with head toward mosque
324
626.
Disapproved to lie on stomach
324
627.
Sleeping on roof without palisade is
inviting trouble
325
662.
Section III
336
663.
The laughing of the Sahabah
336
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Names
337
666.
Section I
337
667.
Prophet's Kunyah
337
668.
The best names are Abdullah & Abdur
338
Rahman
669.
Shah in Shah in a disallowed title
340
670.
Do not give name that eulogizes
340
671.
Mustahab to change bad names
341
672.
Do not say My slave ...
341
673.
Karm
343
707.
Few words are sign of faith
358
674.
Do not revile time
343
708.
Meaningless speech is makruh
358
709.
Eating like cows
359
676.
Section II
344
710.
Allah dislikes the sweet-talker
359
677.
Do not use Abu al Hakam as a kunyah
344
711.
Unpracticing orator
359
678.
Ajda is the devil
345
712.
Captivating hearts with eloquence
360
679.
Give your children good names
345
713.
Short speech is good
360
714.
Some knowledge is ignorance
360
715.
Merit of Hasan the poet
361
716.
Hadi is allowed
361
717.
Topic of poetry decides its goodness or
362
otherwise
718.
Pus better then poetry in belly
362
719.
Singing produces hypocrisy
362
720.
Shut ears on hearing music
363
721.
CHAPTER - X
364
722.
Guarding the tongue backbiting & abuse 364
689.
Bad names have bad results
350
690.
Good names
350
364
691.
CHAPTER - IX
351
692.
Eloquence & poetry
351
693.
Section I
351
694.
Eloquence can be like a spell
351
695.
Some poetry is full of wisdom
352
696.
Do not exaggerate in speech
352
729.
Do not call anyone 'enemy of Allah'
366
697.
The truest word of a poet
352
698.
Masnun to listen to poetry that promotes 353
knowledge
699.
The Prophet's poetry
353
700.
The poet Hassan
354
701.
Muslim poets were instructed to satirise 354
the Quraysh infidels
702.
Rajaz of Rawahah on Prophet's tongue
355
703.
Prophet's prayer at the Battle of Trench
356
for those who recited the rajaz
704.
Poetry is worse than pus in belly
356
705.
Section II
357
706.
Poetry that prompts to jihad
357
675.
Do not describe trial as wretchedness
343
680.
Do not keep Prophet's name & Kunyah
346
together
681.
Disallowed but not unlawful
346
682.
Kunyah of Anas
347
683.
Change a bad name
347
684.
Do not keep derogatory names
347
685.
The word ze'amu is not good
348
686.
What Allah alone wills
1
349
687.
A hypocrite must not be called 'Sayyid'
349
350
688.
Section III
723.
Section I
364
724.
Paradise assured to one who preserves
his tongue & private parts
725.
Keep a civil tongue
365
726.
Abusing a Muslim is very sinful
365
727.
Do not call another Muslim 'an unbeliever'
365
728.
Do not accuse a Muslim fisq
366
730.
Sin of reviling one another is laid on the beginner
366
731.
Not proper to curse anyone
367
732.
Do not say about anyone that he has
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Worst of men
369
734.
Tale-bearer is warned
369
735.
Speak the truth, shun falsehood
369
771. Silence better than worship over sixty
387
years
737.
Praising to flatter
370
772.
Prophet's counsel to Sayyiduna Abu
Dharr
387
738.
Kinds of praise
371
739.
What is backbiting
371
773.
Silence & integrity
389
774.
Cursing others is bad
389
775.
Fear of the tongue
390
776.
Six things that take to paradise
390
742.
Do not disclose your own defects
743.
Section II
374
777.
Good & bad people
390
744.
Those who give falsehood
374
778.
Backbiting nullifies fast
391
779.
Backbiting is worse than fornication
391
780.
Expiation for backbiting
392
781.
CHAPTER - XI
393
748.
Refrain from joking
377
749.
Silence words off trouble
377
783.
Section I
393
784.
Heirs must fulfil pledge of forebears
393
785.
.Section II
394
394
379
786.
Prophet's promise made good by his
successor
787.
Waited three days forword to be made
394
good
788.
If one cannot fulfil promise in spite of
intention
789.
Is it wajib or mustahab fulfil promise?
395
790.
Honour promise to children too
.395
791.
Section III
396
792.
Not improper to retract a promise for a
396
valid reason
793.
CHAPTER - XII
396
794.
Joking
396
795.
Section I
397
796.
Prophet's cheerful disposition
397
797.
Section II
397
798.
Spoke the truth even while joking
397
799.
The Prophet's witty remarks
398
800.
The two-eared one!
398
395
756.
Warning to the two faced
381
757.
What takes away from perfect faith
381
758.
Curse reverberates
382
382
759.
Do not criticize each other before your
elders
760.
Roughness renders bad mildness adorns
383
761.
Warning to one who shames other people
383
762.
Do not rejoice at another's plight
384
763.
Forbidden to mimic anyone
384
764.
Do not restrict Allah's Mercy for anyone
384
765.
Section III
385
766.
Do not praise a sinner
385
767.
Treachery & falsehood are opposites of
385
faith
768.
About Sayyiduna Safwan
386
375
745.
What leads to paradise & what to hell
746.
Significance of good word & bad word
376
747.
Making people laugh with false jokes
377
782.
Promises
393
750.
Means of preservation
378
751.
Limbs beseech the tongue
379
752.
Excellence of a man's Islam
753.
Do not comment on another's fate
380
754. Beware of slip of the tongue
380
755.
Falsehood causes angels to move away
380
372
740.
When is backbiting allowed
741.
Worst man is he who speaks indecently
372
374
769: Devil's mischief
386
770. . Silence is better than teaching evil
387
736.
One who puts things right is not a liar
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Only young women will enter paradise
398
802.
Another example of light humour
399
803.
Frank exchange of conversation with
399
sahabah
804.
Avoid joking that causes harm
400
805.
CHAPTER - XIII
401
806.
Boasting & ethnicity
401
807.
Section I
401
808.
. Knowledge of religion is beauty of high
401
lineage
809.
Who is most noble
402
810.
Resolute against infidels
402
811.
Best of the creatures
403
812.
Sign not his praise to point of
403
exaggeration
813.
Do not boast & oppress each other
404
814.
Section II
404
815.
Pride of jahiliyah is in dust
404
816.
Be not agents of the devil
405
817.
Taqwa is real standard of excellence
405
818.
Disapproved to take pride in descent
406
819.
Never boast on your own past ignorance
406
820.
Do not support your people in unjust cause
407
821.
What is partisanship
407
822.
Endeavour to end your prophet's
407
wrong-doing
823. Class-prejudice blamed
408
824.
Love makes one blind & deaf
408
825.
Section III
408
855.
After death of parents
422
826.
What is al-asabiyah
408
827. Do not take pride in your lineage
409
828.
CHAPTER - XIV
409
829.
Piety and joining ties of kinship
409
830.
Section I
410
831.
Mother has more rights than father has
410
832. - Being undutiful to parents
411
833. Kindness to non Muslim parents
411
834.
Need to join ties of relationship
411
835. Forbidden to cause inconvenience to
412
parents
836. Do not revile parents
413
837. Kind treatment to father's friends
413
838. Kind treatment of relatives results in
414
enlargement of provision
839. Merit of joining ties of relationship
414
840.
One who severs ties of kinship deprives 416
himself of Allah's mercy
841.
He who severs ties of kinship will be
deprived of paradise
417
842.
Perfect way to join ties of relationship
417
843.
Section II
417
844.
Kindness to parents & relatives
417
845.
Merit of serving parents
419
419
846.
Allah's pleasure lies in the parent's
pleasure
847. Parent's pleasure against love of wife
419
848.
Mother is more deserving of son's kind
treatment
420
849.
Joining bonds of kinship
420
850.
Mercy denied to one who severs ties of
relationship
420
851.
Rebelling & severing ties of relationship 421
invite punishment
852.
Those to whom paradise is denied
421
853.
Advantage of joining ties of kinship
422
854.
Maternal aunt is like mother
422
856.
Prophet's foster mother
423
857.
Section III
423
858.
Musthab to pray by virtue of good deeds 423
859.
Paradise is under mother's feet
425
860.
Father's wish must be respected
426
861.
Parents are paradise or hell for children
426
862.
Making istighfar for parents &
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427
tantamount to obeying or disobeying Allah
864.
A kind glance at parents gets reward of 427
pilgrimage
865.
Warning to the disobedient
428
866.
Elder brother is like father
428
896.
·Merit of widow who raises up her
444
867.
CHAPTER - XV
429
868.
Tenderness & mercy towards the creatures
429
869.
Section I
429
870.
One who is not merciful is not shown
429
mercy
:1.
Being tender to children
429
872.
Daughter is more deserving of love
429
873.
Merit of raising daughters
430
374.
Care for widow & needy
430
902.
Well wishers
448
₹75.
Looking after orphans
431
876.
Muslims should behave like one
431
physical body
877.
Muslims can become invincible
432
878.
Good to intercede for others
432
906.
Speak the truth & be honest
449
879.
Helping the oppressor
433
880.
Muslims are brothers in religion
433
881.
Do not belittle a Muslim
434
882.
Kinds of those who will enter paradise
434
& hell
883.
Like for your brother what your like for
yourself
435
884.
Do not inconvenience the neighbour
436
885.
Two must not talk privately in presence
437
of third
886.
Virtue of exhorting others
437
887.
Section II
439
888.
The wretched has no mercy
439
889.
Have mercy on earthlings Allah will be
439
merciful to you
890.
He is not the follower of prophet's who 440
is not merciful to the young & respectful
to his elders
891.
Respect elders & you will be respected
440
892.
Service to scholar & just king
440
893.
Kind treatment of orphans
442
894.
Bringing up sister or daughter
443
895.
Disciplining children
444
children
897.
Do not prefer son over daughter
445
898.
Do not let anyone backbite your Muslim 445
brother
899.
Conceal defects of others
446
900.
Believers are mirrors of each other
447
901.
Prevent Muslims from slandering others
447
Allah will put off the Fire from you
903.
Allah's judgement is at the creatures
448
tongue
904.
Pay respect to rank
449
905.
Section III
449
907.
Ignoring a hungry neighbour shows lack 450
of faith
908.
Warning to a rude woman
450.
909.
Perfect Muslim & perfect believer
4.52
910.
Mutual love leads to unity
452
911.
Fulfilling need of a Muslim
453
912.
Removing a Muslim's difficulty
453
913.
Creatures are dependants of Allah
453
914
Quarrelling neighbours
454
915.
Cure of hardheartedness
454
916.
Care for widowed daughter
454
917.
CHAPTER - XVI
455
918.
Love of Allah & for Allah
455
919.
Section I
455
920.
Unity or divergence here will be
455
reflected in the next world
921.
Creatures be friend whom Allah endears 455
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457
924.
Those who love the righteous will be
457
with them in the hereafter
925.
Pious & evil companions
459
926.
Section II
460
927.
Virtue of joining mutual ties to please
460
Allah
928. Rawh not rooh
461
929.
The hadith as in the Masbih
461
930:
Virtue of love for Allah's sake & hatred
462
for His sake
931. Paying sick visit to a Muslim
462
932.
Let him know whom you love
462
933. . Do not keep company of the evil
463
934. Make sure who you befriend
464
935.
Before assuming fraternal bonds get the 464
other's antecedents
.936.
Section III
465
937.
Merit of loving or disliking for the sake
465
of Allah
938.
Alternative meaning
465
939.
The best people
466
940. Merit of loving each other for Allah's sake 466
941.
How to gain blessings in both worlds
466
942.
Reward for joining ties of kinship
467
943.
CHAPTER - XVII
468
944. What is prohibited about keeping apart
468
severing ties of friendship searching for
faults
945. Section I
468
946. Not allowed to keep apart from another 468
for over three days
947. . Avoid suspicion
469
948.
Evil of hatred
471
949.
Lying for good cause
471
950.
Section II
472
951.
Lies may be spoken on three occasions
472
952.
Do not keep apart more than three days 472
953.
He who dies after alienating from a
473
Muslim brother
954.
Keeping apart for a year
473
955.
"Patch up in three days
473
956.
Virtue of working a rapprochement
473
957.
Jealousy & hatred condemned
474
958.
Jealousy devours piety
475
959.
Do not cause ill will between two people
476
960.
Do not harm a Muslim
476
961.
Do not degrade a Muslim
476
962.
Do not play with a Muslim's honour
477
963.
Defaming someone's honour is like
478
eating human flesh
964.
Disparaging someone is bad
478
965.
Have good opinion
479
966.
Wife's unguarded remark displeased the 480
Prophet
“8
967
Section III
480
968.
Believe someone's oath
480
969.
Poverty & jealousy are condemned
481
970. Accept excuse of another
482
971.
CHAPTER - XVIII
483
972. Caution & deliberation in affairs
483
973. Section I
483
974.
A wise principle
483
975.
Excellence of caution & deliberation
484
976.
Section II
485
977.
Merit of composed approach
485
978. Stumbling is experiencing
485
979. Do only what looks like having good
486
results
980. Do not put off
486
981.
Characteristics that are part of
487
prophethood
982.
Anyone's secret is a trust
488
983.
Offer a good advice
489
984.
Three things must be disclosed even if
489
confidential
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985.
Section III
490
1020. CHAPTER - XX
508
1021. Anger & pride
508
1022. Section I
509
1023. Emphasis on restraining anger
509
1024. The strong man
509
1025. People of paradise & of hell
510
1026. The proud is denied paradise
511
1027. Reality of pride
512
1028. Three who will be deprived of Allah's
512
sight
1029. Arrogance is like polytheism
514
1030. Section II
515
1031. Arrogance is self-deceit
515
1032. Anger is from the devil
516
.1033. A simple cure of Anger
516
1034. The bad people
517
999.
Section II
496
1035. Section III
517
1000. Merit & significance of mildness
496
1001. Modesty is part of faith
497
1002. Bad manners & rudeness
497
1003. Merit of good manners & evil of bad
speech
1004. Rank of the good mannered
498
1005. Be kind natured to others
498
1006. A legend
500
1007. Hell is kept away from the mild
500
1008. The pious believer
500
1009. Mixing with people is better than solitude
501
1010. Excellence of suppressing anger
1011. Section III
503
1012. Merit of modesty
1013. Faith & modesty are complementary
1014. Be good to others
1015. Gratitude for good looks
1016. Prayer to be given good character
505
1017. The best people
506
1018. Three things that are true
506
1019. Benefit of mildness to compassion
507
503
504
504
1048. Oppressor will have to repay the
523
oppressed in the next world
1049. Who is a pauper
523
1050. Rights of fellow-men will have to be
524
paid
1051. Section II
525
1052. Evil is not repaid with evil
525
986.
Position of intelligence
490
987.
Reckoning will be according to
490
intelligence
988.
Farsightedness abstinence & good
491
character
989.
Moderation in spending is half wealth
492
990.
CHAPTER - XIX
493
991. Gentleness, modesty & good character
493
992.
Section I
494
993.
Merit of mildness & mercy
494
994.
Lack of mildness deprives of piety
494
995.
Excellence of modesty
494
996.
An old adage from the Prophets
495
997.
Piety & sin defined
998.
Virtues of good manners
496
1036. Suppress anger
517
1037. Anger mars faith
518
1038. Be humble
518
1039. Forgiving even when able to retaliate
519
1040. Reward for restraining anger
519
1041. Three means of deliverance & three
519
means of punishment
1042. CHAPTER - XXI .
521
1043. Oppression
521
· 1044. Section I
521
1045. Oppressor will be in the dark
521
502
1046. Oppressor gets respite
521
1047. Passing through ruins of the Thamud & 522
.
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1053. Earn Allah's pleasure to please the
526
people
1087. Section III
1054. Section III
526
1055. Explanation of Zulm in the verse 6 82
526
1056. Do not throw away hereafter for this life 528
1057. Polytheism & oppression are
528
unforgivable
1058. Preserve yourself from cry of the
529
oppressed
1059. Helping a tyrant is faithlessness
529
1060. Evil of oppression
529
1096. Section I
·
550
1061. CHAPTER - XXII
530
1097. Two worthy blessings
550
1062. Enjoining what is reputable
530
1098. Example of the world & the hereafter
551
1063. Section I
530
1099. This world is worthless
551
552
1065. Who should do it
531
1101. Believer's jail & infidel's garden
552
552
1067. If trouble could arise
532
1068. Even a sinner must preach
532
1069. Nawawi's views
532
1070. Not rules only
533
1105. Affluence is not always disliked
554
.
1071. Qualification
533
534
1073. Example of the facile
534
535
1074. Fate of one who practices not what he
preaches
1075. Section II
536
1076. Punishment for not preaching
536
1077. Be disgusted with sin
536
1078. Exert yourself to curb evil or face Divine 537
wrath
1079. Merit of piety during last days
538
1080. A comprehensive sermon of the Prophet 540
1081. General imam
542
1082. Sin destroys
543
1083. Inviting punishment to all
544
1084. Leave no stone unturned to prevent evil 544
1085. Non practicing preachers
545
here after
1113. Wealth is what will benefit
559
1114. Richness of heart
559
1115. Section II
560
1116. Five instructions to Abu Hurayrah
560
1117. Deliverance from worldly worries
561
1118. Abstinence is great
561
1119. Regard five things as great before five
562
1120. Foolish to let opportunity go unutilized
562
1121. Contemptible world
563
1086. Being unfaithful with Allah's blessing
546
546
1088. Relief from cruel rulers
546
547
1089. Why are pious ruined with the evil
1090. Excuse for being derelict
548
1091. Deeds will be given bodies & speech
1092. BOOK - - XXV
548
550
1093. Ar-riqaq
550
1094. Words that soften he heart
550
1095. CHAPTER - I
550
1064. Change what is against Shari'ah
530
1100. Sagacious words
1066. Degree of enjoining & forbidding
531
1102. A disbeliever is given return for his
good deeds in this world
1103. Veils over paradise & hell
553
1104. Slave of worldly things
554
1106. The world in a mystic's sight
556
1107. Desiring the world leads to destruction
556
1108. Prophet's prayer for sustenance
556
1109. He who succeeds & is saved
557
1110. How ummah belongs to the holder
557
1111. No one will be helpful after death
558
1112. Let your property be a treasure for the
558
1072. Character